[Kde-hardware-devel] All hail the new KScreen king

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Wednesday 27 January 2016, a les 15:39:02, Sebastian Kügler va escriure:
> Hey,
> 
> First of all: Thanks a lot, Dan, for your KScreen maintainership. I'll have
> big shoes to fill.
> 
> On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 04:31:45 PM Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> > since I no longer have that much time to work on KDE, I decide to cut back
> > on the number of projects I am involved in. KScreen is an important part
> > of
> > Plasma nowadays and the fact that it sucks and I don't have time and will
> > to fix it impacts the whole Plasma product, so I decided to hand it to
> > someone more competent.
> > 
> > Sebas agreed to take over KScreen and take care of it. Thank you Sebas! He
> > knows the code already as he is working on the Wayland backend and has
> > some
> > cool plans for KScreen in the future, so there's certainly something to
> > look forward to.
> 
> Yes, plans. On my list for the future direction:
> 
> - Wayland support (more or less done in libkscreen, currently working on the
> KWin bits
> - Kill libkscreen usage in plasmashell (Aleix has a patch, but it needs Qt
>   5.6, so until we can depend on that, we have to wait), in general,
>   libkscreen should not be used for just reading the screen configuration,
> for that, there's QScreen

Remember Okular also uses libkscreen.

Cheers,
  Albert

> - Fix X11 multihead -- I see lots of grief from users, may have to look into
> it more closely.
> 
> Help with all that is most welcome. I'm not going to run the show alone, but
> I agreed to coordinate the work on it.
> 
> Cheers,